Re: Linux Trojan Circulating

From: Hal Murray (hmurray_at_suespammers.org)
Date: 10/25/04

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    Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:03:43 -0500

    >Something that *NIX has going for it is platform diversity. People will
    >certainly try to release viruses and trojans for *NIX but they'll have one
    >hell of a time making their bug spread automatically, since the
    >environments (available tools, locations of configurations, etc.) vary
    >substantially by platform and distro - Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris,
    >Mac OS X and _then_ different environments among the different Linux
    >distros too.

    Don't get too confident.

    A lot of open source software compiles and runs on most of the platforms
    you listed. It's not rocket science any more. 

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